Conference on Language & Technology (CLT) 2020

Conference on Language & Technology (CLT) 2020

Centre for Language Engineering (CLE) KICS UET Lahore in collaboration with Society for Natural Language Processing (SNLP) organized a three-day Conference on Language and Technology (CLT) 2020. It was a 7th in a series of biennial CLT conferences. The purpose of the conference was to bring together students, researchers and practitioners to exchange research and development in the fields of linguistics, speech, script and language processing. It was a joint effort to promote the area of research, educate the masses and the decision-making authorities to realize the importance of language and technology in the modern age.

The Opening ceremony of the 7th International Conference on Language & Technology (CLT) 2020 was held in University of Engineering and Technology Lahore. Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Head Centre for Language Engineering (CLE) welcomed the guests and participants and talked about the importance of Language & Technology. Whereas Director KICS, Prof. Dr. Waqar Mahmood gave a presentation to the audience about the introduction of KICS and research projects happening there. The three-day conference consisted of technical workshops, keynote talks, paper presentations, posters & demo display and panel discussion.

Both National and International speakers delivered their technical talks apart from the paper presentations. Invited speakers for talks from inside and across the border were from Muhammad Ali Jinnah University (MAJU), Isra University Hyderabad, University of Konstanz, Germany, Cambridge University, University of Edinburgh and Qatar Computing Research Institute QCRI. 10 accepted papers and 4 poster presentations were also presented at the conference by the authors from various institutes.

Panel discussion session on the topic “NLP Research in Pakistan: Building Synergies and Collaborations” was moderated by Dr. Sarmad Hussain and the panelists were Dr. Mariam Butt, Prof. Mark Gales, Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan, Dr. Hassan Sajjad and Dr. Tania Habib. The closing ceremony took place on the last day of the conference where all the guests and participants were awarded shields and certificates.